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US 2025/0010373 A1Published application
Body and method for locating machining features in additively manufactured parts
AssigneeTransportation IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsBrett Heher, Manuel Licon Flores
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Abstract
A method includes forming one or more plug holes into a tool surface of a body. The one or more plug holes are partially formed around a landing surface portion of a plug in the body. The method also includes engaging a tool with the landing surface portion of the plug in the body, and using the tool to cut away the plug from the body and at least part of the body to form a tooled void into the body.
Claims14
A device body comprising:
- a tool surface into which a tool hole is to be cut by a tool;
- and
- a plug that is defined by one or more plug holes partially extending around the plug and into the tool surface of the device body, the one or more plug holes extending around a landing surface portion of the tool surface that is part of the tool surface, the landing surface portion configured for the tool to engage during cutting into the tool surface.
A system comprising:
- a tool;
- a device body comprising:
- a tool surface into which a tool hole is to be cut by the tool;
- and
- a plug that is defined by one or more plug holes partially extending around the plug and into the tool surface of the device body, the one or more plug holes extending around a landing surface portion of the tool surface that is part of the tool surface, the landing surface portion configured for the tool to engage during cutting into the tool surface;
- the device body is positioned for being cut by the tool, and the plug has the landing surface portion oriented normal to a cutting path of the tool.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.